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en-wikipedia-org-1893		View source for Sisyphus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1677	152	71	You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting your IP address. You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host or colocation provider because it hides your IP address, much like a proxy or VPN. Even when blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page and email other editors and administrators. According to the [[solar theory]], King Sisyphus is the disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west.<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Sisyphus |volume=25 |page=161}}</ref> Other scholars regard him as a personification of waves rising and falling, or of the treacherous sea.<ref name="eb1911"/> The 1st-century BC [[Epicureanism|Epicurean]] philosopher [[Lucretius]] interprets the myth of Sisyphus as personifying politicians aspiring for political office who are constantly defeated, with the quest for power, in itself an "empty thing", being likened to rolling the boulder up the hill.<ref>''[[De Rerum Natura]]'' III</ref> [[Friedrich Welcker]] suggested that he symbolises the vain struggle of man in the pursuit of knowledge, and [[Salomon Reinach]]<ref>''Revue archéologique'', 1904</ref> that his punishment is based on a picture in which Sisyphus was represented rolling a huge stone [[Acrocorinthus]], symbolic of the labour and skill involved in the building of the Sisypheum.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1893.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1893.txt